Tension ran high at the Moselle Open in Metz as Frenchman Hugo Gaston’s clash with Germany’s Daniel Altmaier took an unexpected turn. Their encounter in the first set began with Gaston edging away to a win. But the momentum dramatically shifted away from him in the second set. In the end, Gaston’s story at the Moselle Open was shut down. But what really caused the unrest in this chaotic contest?

Gaston was about to serve in the second set of the match against Altmaier when his right foot gave in. He was forced to opt for a medical timeout with the scoreboard reading 0-3 (for the second set), in his opponent’s favor. Visuals of the courtside medical staff examining his right ankle quickly spread throughout the internet. But that wasn’t the end of the series of pauses that troubled this mat

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